Anglo-Saxon

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A member of one of the Germanic peoples, the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, who settled in Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries.

n. Any of the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, who were dominant in England until the Norman Conquest of 1066.

n. See Old English.

n. A person of English ancestry.

adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Anglo-Saxons, their descendants, or their language or culture; English.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

proper n. The inflected ancestor language of modern English, also called Old English, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD.

n. Germanic peoples inhabiting medieval England.

n. A person of English ethnic descent.

n. A light-skinned person presumably of British or other North European descent;

n. Profanity, especially words derived from Old English.

adj. Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.

adj. Favouring a liberal free market economy.

adj. Descended from English or North European settlers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

n. A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or “Old”) Saxon.

n. The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest.

n. The language of the English people before the Norman conquest in 1066 (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.

n. One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense.

n. a person of Anglo-Saxon (esp British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by English culture as in "WASP for `White Anglo-Saxon Protestant'"; "this Anglo-Saxon view of things".

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Literally, one of the Angle or ‘English’ Saxons; sometimes restricted to the Saxons who dwelt chiefly in the southern districts (Wessex, Essex, Sussex, Middlesex—names which contain a form of Saxon—and Kent) of the country which came to be known, from a kindred tribe, as the land of the Angles, Engla land, now England, but usually extended to the whole people or nation formed by the aggregation of the Angles, Saxons, and other early Teutonic settlers in Britain, or the whole people of England before the conquest.

n. plural The English race; all persons in Great Britain and Ireland, in the United States, and in their dependencies, who belong, actually or nominally, nearly or remotely, to the Teutonic stock of England; in the widest use, all English-speaking or English-appearing people.

n. [The adj. used absolutely.] The language of the Anglo-Saxons; Saxon; the earliest form of the English language, constituting, with Old Saxon, Old Friesic, and other dialects, the Old Low German group, belonging to the so-called West Germanic division of the Teutonic speech.

Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons: as, the Anglo-Saxon kings; the Anglo-Saxon language.

Of or pertaining to the language of the Anglo-Saxons; belonging to, derived from, or having the form or spirit of that language: as, the Anglo-Saxon elements of modern English; the proportion of Anglo-Saxon words in the Bible or Shakspere; an Anglo-Saxon style, as contrasted with a Latin style.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Anglo-Saxons, or the English-speaking race: as, Anglo-Saxon enterprise; the political genius of the Anglo-Saxon race.

Almost all the authors are more than comfortable with the idea of Anglo-Saxon superiority, and lesser breeds are treated with disdain and contempt—even when there is reason to fear their vile schemes and vindictive nature.

"If you looked around the world in 1981, you could say free, democratic institutions are a luxury that only the developed world enjoys—that is to say, the Anglo-Saxon world plus Western Europe plus Japan."